There have been four universal Empires as explained by Daniel in his
interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Dan. 2:31-45). The first was Babylon, second was Medo-Persia, who conquered Babylon. Greece
conquered Medo-Persia and became the third. The fourth was Rome, which held universal sway at the time
of our Lord’s birth. “There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.” (Luke
2:1) Rome was
by far the strongest and endured longer than its predecessors.

We only give this brief synopsis of the first four, because we are more
concerned with the Fifth. However, Daniel’s interpretation of the dream
continues “And in the days of these Kings [the so-called “Christian kingdoms”
or “Christendom”] shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be
destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall
break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms; and shall stand forever.” (Dan.
2:43,44)

The Holy Roman Empire, the Papal system has long claimed that it is the
kingdom which the God of heaven here promised to set up, and that, in
fulfillment of this prophecy, it did break in pieces and consume all other
kingdoms. The truth, however, is that the nominal Church merely united with
earthly empires, and that papacy was never the kingdom of God, but merely a
counterfeit of it. One of the best evidences that papacy did not destroy and
consume these earthly kingdoms is that they still exist. But now it has lost
its power and shows signs of dissolution, and will quickly crumble when smitten
by the “stone,” the true Kingdom.

The stone cut out of the mountain without hands, which smites and scatters
the Gentile powers, represents the true Church, the Kingdom of God.
During the Gospel Age this “stone” kingdom was being formed, “cut out,” carved
and shaped for its future position and greatness - not by human hands, but by
the power or spirit of the truth, the invisible power of Jehovah. It is entirely cut out now and is smiting and
destroying the kingdoms of this world. Not the people, but the governments, are
being destroyed. Our Lord Jesus came not to destroy men’s lives, but to save
them (John 3:17).

The stone, during its preparation, while being cut out, might be called
an embryo mountain, in view of its future destiny; so, too, the Church could
be, and sometimes is called the Kingdom
of God. In fact, however,
the stone does not become the mountain until it has smitten the image; and so
the Church, in the full sense, will become the Kingdom to fill the whole earth
when “the day of the Lord,” “the day of wrath upon the nations” or the “time of
trouble,” will be over, and when it will be established and all other dominions
have become subservient to it.

Call to mind now the promise made by our Lord to the overcomers of the
Christian Church: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my
throne”  “and he that ovecometh and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will
I give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as
the vessels of a potter shall they be
broken to shivers, even as I received of my Father.” (Rev. 3:21; 2:26,27; Psa.
2:8-12.) When the rod of iron has accomplished the work of destruction, then
will the hand that smote be turned to heal, and the people will return to the Lord, and he shall heal them (Isa. 19:22; Jer. 3:22,23; Hosea 6:1; 13:4;
Isa. 2:3), giving them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning and the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness (Isa. 61:3; Luke 4:18).

The stone class, the true Church, during its selection or taking out of
the mountain, has been esteemed by the world as of no value. It has been
despised and rejected of men. They see no beauty in it that they should desire
it. The world loves, admires, praises, and defends the rulers and governments,
though it has been continually disappointed, deceived, wounded and oppressed by
them. The proud are now called happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up
in power (Mal. 3:15). Can we not see, then, that the destruction of these
kingdoms by the smiting of the stone, and the establishment of God’s Kingdom,
means the liberating of the oppressed and the blessing of all? Though for a
time the change will cause disaster and trouble, it will finally yield the
fruits of righteousness.

But now, calling to mind the difference of standpoint, let us look at the
same four universal empires of earth from the standpoint of God and those in
harmony with him, as portrayed in a vision to the beloved prophet Daniel. As to
us these kingdoms appear inglorious and beastly, so to Him these four universal
empires were shown as four great and ravenous wild beasts. And to this view the
coming Kingdom of
God (the stone) was
proportionally grander than as seen by Nebuchadnezzar. To get Daniel’s
description of these four beastly empires see Dan. 7:2-7.

Of the fourth beast, Rome,
Daniel says: “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,
dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly… and it had ten horns. I
considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little
horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots;
and, behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man and a mouth speaking
great things.” (Dan. 7:7,8)

Here the Roman Empire is shown; and the
divisions of its power are shown in the ten horns, a horn being a symbol of
power. The little horn which arose among these, and which appropriated the
power of three of them to itself and ruled among the others, represents the
small beginning and gradual rise to power of the Church of Rome, the Papal
power or horn. As it rose in influence, three of the horns, or powers of the Roman Empire, were plucked out of the way to make room
for its establishment as a civil
power or horn. This last especially notable horn, Papacy, is remarkable for its
eyes, representing intelligence, and for its mouth  its utterances, its
claims, etc.

After giving some details regarding this last or Roman beast, and
especially of its peculiar or Papal horn, the Prophet states that judgment
against this horn would be rendered, and it would begin to lose its dominion, which would be consumed by gradual process until the beast should be destroyed (Rev. 17:11).

No matter what may be the means or instrumentality used, the cause of this fall will be the
establishment of the Fifth Universal Power of earth, the Kingdom of God,
under Christ, whose right it is to take the dominion. The transfer of the
kingdom from the fourth beast, which for its appointed time was “ordained of
God,” to the fifth kingdom under the Messiah, when its appointed season has
come, is described by the Prophet in these words: “And behold, one like the Son
of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and
they brought him near before him. And there was given unto him [Christ  head
and body complete] dominion, and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations
and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” (Dan.
7:13,14) This the angel interpreted to mean that “the kingdom and dominion, and
the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the
people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;
and all dominions shall serve and obey him (Dan. 7: 27).

“For ye see your calling, brethren that not many wise men after the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called: but God hath chosen the
foolish things of the world to confound the wise: and God hath chosen the weak
things in the world to confound the things which are mighty.” (1 Cor.
1:26,27) As a rule it has been the poor,
who have been called, but they must be rich in one respect; rich in faith, rich
in the spirit of faith, rich in the exemplification of that faith, rich in ministering
to that faith, rich in commending that faith to others and rich in helping
others to come to that faith. God has promised the Kingdom to the faithful, who
love Him supremely with all their heart, mind, soul and strength as the
all-gracious Jehovah, the God of perfect wisdom, power, justice and love. These
will be heirs of the Kingdom in due time because they have been proven faithful
to God unto the end.

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.” (2 Tim. 4:1)
The Apostle Paul is here writing to his beloved son, Timothy. He gives him a
very solemn charge before God and the Lord Jesus, because it could be given
before none greater. He says that the Lord Jesus and the Father “shall judge
the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom.” By the quick, we
understand those who are not under a death sentence, like new creatures,
quickened by God’s Holy Spirit (Eph. 2: 21,15; Col. 2:13) and the fallen angels.
By the dead, we understand the human family to be meant, as dead either in
trespasses and sins, under the Adamic death sentence, or in the death state, in
the graves. This tells us the time that the judgment would take place. It will
be at the time of His revelation, His manifestation, the Epiphany, and at the
time of His Kingdom. In getting their judgment at these particular times, they
will first, be instructed; second tested according to the instruction given
them; third, striped for reformation, if they fail to live up to the
instruction they had; and finally, a sentence will be passed on them. This will
be the fulfillment of this passage.

Continuing our discussion, we desire to take up another line of thought,
the invisibility of this Coming Universal Empire. “And when he was demanded of
the Pharisees, when the kingdom
of God should come, he
answered them and said, The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither
shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God
is within you.” (Luke 17:20,21) This passage requires some explanation and some
correction in the translation. With their usual impudence in their treating our
Lord, the Pharisees demanded, as though they had a right to command our Lord,
when the kingdom would come. “He answered them and said, The kingdom of God
cometh not with observation [with outward sight, visibly].” Neither will they
be able to point to the kingdom class, saying, Look over there, you will see
it! “for behold, the kingdom
of God is within you.”
Literally this should be translated: in
your midst. The Kingdom class, who, glorified as spirit beings, of the
Divine nature, are thoroughly invisible, just as the angels of God are
invisible. We have an illustration in Satan’s kingdom. He by usurpation has
gotten control of a kingdom among the children of men. He is thus controlling
the matters of politics, trusts, corporations, mergers, etc. He rules over them
as a tyrant and executioner. He uses this rulership invisibly. We can only see
the effects of his reign. This invisibility is an illustration of the Kingdom of God when it rules over the earth. The
Christ, Head and Body, will be present, but invisible in the Divine nature,
having immortality and incorruptibility. They will not be seen by the world,
either before the Millennium or during the Millennium, or forever afterwards,
even as Jesus says of Himself, in John 14:19: “Yet a little while, and the
world seeth me no more.”

Another line of thought in connection with the Coming Universal Empire is
its phases. There are two phases of this
invisible empire. This we get in a general way from Isa. 2:3: “And many people
shall go and say [the many people of the nations of the earth, who in the
Millennial Age, recognize that Christ and the Church are ruling over the earth,
will make a general proclamation among one another, saying], Come ye, and let
us go up to the mountain [Kingdom] of the Lord, to the house of Jacob [fleshly
Israel]; and he will teach us of his ways [His doctrines, precepts, histories,
prophesies, types and moral teachings; in other words, every teaching will be
required at that time], and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion [Zion is
The Church, Head and Body] shall go forth the law, and the Word of the
Lord from Jerusalem [this will be the visible phase of the Kingdom, the Ancient
and Youthful Worthies].”

Isaiah 32:1 is another passage to the point: “Behold, a king shall reign
in righteous-ness, and princes shall rule in judgment.” The King here is the
Christ the Head and the Church His Body. These as the heavenly phase of the
Kingdom, will reign in righteousness, with the wisdom, power, justice and love
of God, which they will gloriously represent in all of their acts and all of
their deeds. The princes that shall rule in judgment are the Ancient and
Youthful Worthies, who by doctrinal teachings among mankind, will exercise
rulership as the visible representatives of the invisible Christ and the
Church, with their associates, the Great Company.

SUBJECTS OF THE EMPIRE

We will now show who the subjects of that Empire will be. First, we quote Psalms 22:27-29: “All the
ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds
of the nations shall worship before thee. For the Kingdom is the LORD’S: and he
is the governor among the nations.” Both Jews and Gentiles, the whole human
family, everyone, will remember the experiences they had with evil and the
experiences they had with good. These will cause them to turn against evil and,
at least for a while, cling to the good and turn to the Lord. Every nation on
earth will come before the Lord and worship Him, for it is written, “All the
nations thou hast made shall come before the Lord and worship Him.” (Rev. 13:8)
Jehovah will be the One who will have established Christ and the Church as His
Kingdom. Christ and the Church will be there in full power and authority as the
representative of God. All they that be fat upon the earth shall eat and
worship (the fat are those that are full of love). They will appropriate to
themselves the blessings of that glorious time and will on that account carry
out their consecration to God and serve Him with willing hearts of delight in
wisdom, justice, love, and power. All that go down into the dust (Eccl. 3:20) shall bow before Him (i.e., all
the dead).

In Psalms 98:2,3, we read as follows: “The LORD hath made known his
salvation: his righteousness that he openly shewed in the sight of the nations [here
translated heathen]. He hath
remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth
have seen the salvation of our God.” Here again the Heavenly Father shows
Himself in wisdom, justice, love and power, to be the One that is working out
salvation from the curse that came upon the race, by heredity through Adam,
condemnation that came upon the Jews, even the best of them, because they could
not keep the Mosaic Law, and by the curse that the Jews brought upon themselves
when they said, “His blood be upon us and upon our children” (Matt. 27:25), when they rejected our Lord. All these will
be given the opportunity of seeing the salvation that God will prepare before
the eyes of all nations. “He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the
house of Israel” - both
natural and spiritual Israel
will be shown that mercy. Natural Israel condemned in heredity, condemned by
the Mosaic Covenant, condemned also by the voice of the prophets, both the four
major and the twelve minor prophets, as well as the prophets who wrote the
books of Joshua, Ruth, the two books of Kings and Chronicles. All of these will
have mercy shown unto them, yea, “all the ends of the earth have seen the
salvation of our God.” The whole earth, every-one on earth, will be enabled to
see that glorious salvation as it will be worked out for the children of men.
They will see it with the eyes of understanding first, and those who obey will
see it as it is fulfilled in the New Covenant provisions, when they obey these
and are faithful to their consecration vows in connection with that covenant.
Those who prove faithful under the experience of righteousness in the
Millennial Age and turn heartily to the Lord, will experience the salvation of
the LORD, and those who hypocritically pretend to be loyal to God, will be
destroyed  some at the age of one hundred, the accursed sinner, according to
Isaiah 65:20, and some at the end of the thousand years, when Satan is loosed
and brings upon them the destruction merited by their hypocrisy. All, however,
will for a while see this salvation.

The results of the Coming Universal Empire are illustrated in 1 Cor.
15:20-26. We quote from the Improved Version: “But now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become a first-fruit [Jesus] of them that slept. For since by man [Adam]
came death, by [a] man also [Jesus] shall come the resurrection of the dead.
For as all in Adam die [Jesus did not die in Adam, for He was not in Adam, and
therefore our correction of the translation], even so all in Christ shall be
made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ a firstfruit [the Church is
meant]; afterward they that are Christ’s at [during] His presence. Then cometh
the end, when he shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father.
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy
that shall be destroyed is death.” God will be the final judge over the earth
and will exercise His judgment through Christ and the Church, as His
Vicegerent. Thus we see that not only persons are these enemies, but also
things. Death is an enemy  it was an enemy to Jesus while He was in the flesh,
it sought to destroy Him through the Jews, but He was faithful unto death; and
by that faithfulness He was pronounced the One who could put to death the last
enemy, even the dying process and the death-state.

But the reign will not be one of force only; side by side with the force
will be the olive branch of mercy and peace for all the inhabitants of the
world, who, when the judgments of the Lord are abroad in the earth, will learn
righteousness (Isa. 26:9). The sin-blinded eyes shall be opened; and the world
will see right and wrong, justice and injustice, in a light quite different
from now - in “seven-fold” light. (Isa. 30:26; 29:18-20) The outward
temptations of the present will largely be done away, evils will neither be
licensed nor permitted: but a penalty sure and swift will fall upon
transgressors, meted out with unerring justice by the glorified and competent
judges of that time who will also have compassion upon the weak (1 Cor. 6:2;
Psa. 96:13: Acts 17:31).

We see clearly that the number atoned for by our Lord’s sacrifice for
sins  the general lifting of the “curse” legally - gives no criterion by which
we may judge the number who will by obedience of faith get actually free from
sin and its curse and return to at-one-ment with the Father, by availing
themselves of the opportunities opened to all by our dear Redeemer. There is no
proposition on God’s part, nor any reasonable ground for supposition on man’s
part, that Divine favor and life everlasting through Christ will ever be
attained by any except those who shall come into the fullest heart-harmony with
God, and with all his laws of righteousness. We rejoice, however, that the
knowledge of God’s grace and other opportunities far better than are now
enjoyed by the world shall in God’s “due time” be extended to every creature.
(1 Tim. 2:6) With the lesson learned from the Time of Trouble, especially from
anarchy, all mankind will be ready for Messiah’s Kingdom, and The Fifth
Universal Empire, will then be ushered in and be “the desire of all nations.”
(Haggai 2:7)

Glory be to God forever and ever for this glorious hope that Jehovah, our
heavenly Father, has given us; and let everyone say, Amen and Amen forever and
forever, Amen.

We are still in the night of weeping. Sickness,
sorrow, sighing and dying continue, and will continue until the glorious
morning of Messiah’s Kingdom breaks. How glad we are to have learned that then
the glorious change will come toearth. The Prophet David ex-presses
this thought, saying: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning.” (Psa. 30:5) St.Pau1 expressed the same sentiment when he declared, “The
whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, waiting for
the manifestation of the Sons of God.” (Romans 8:22) The Sons of God in glory
will, with their Lord, constitute Emmanuel’s Kingdom, and at present these Sons
of God are comparatively little known or recognized amongst men; frequently
they are considered “peculiar people,” because of their zeal for righteousness
and truth, and for God. “Beloved now are we the Sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear we shall be
like Him, for we shall see Him as He is,” and we shall share His glory, honor,
and immortality and with Him scatter Divine blessings to all the families of
the earth.

A SONG OF DELIVERANCE

Ourlesson, the 85th Psalm,
may properly have served several applications. The first of these would be to Israel's deliverance from the Babylonian
captivity, when Cyrus gave permission that all who desired might return to Palestine. About
fifty-three thousand - a small number - availed themselves of this privilege
and of his assistance. The people rejoiced in this manifestation of the turning
away of Divine disfavor, and the return to them of God’s favor and blessing.
The pardon of their transgressions as a nation was here evidenced in this
privilege of returning to God's favor.

Asecondary application of the
Song is just before us. Israel
has been in a far greater captivity in Christendom during the past eighteen
centuries. She has the promise, nevertheless, of a mighty deliverance. The
Cyrus who granted them liberty to return from literal Babylon
was a type of the great Messiah who is about to give full liberty for the
return of God's ancient people to Divine favor to Palestine.

Israel's sins
have not yet been taken away, even as the world's sins have not yet been taken
away. The great Redeemer has, indeed, died for sin, and He is the sinner's
friend, but as yet He has only appeared in the presence of God for us ─ the
Church ─ not for the world.
He is only the Church’s Advocate now. He advocates for none except those who
come to God and give Him their hearts and lives; and these are the saintly only
─ such as love righteousness and hate iniquity.

The
world is enslaved by Sin and Death, the twin monarchs who are now reigning and
causing mankind to groan. We were born in this enslaved condition, as the
Scriptures declare: “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, in sin did my mother
conceive me.” Our race, groaning under the weaknesses and imperfections we have
thus inherited ─ mental, moral and physical, long for the promised deliverance
from the bondage of sin and death. The majority of mankind undoubtedly feel the
gall of their slavery, and will be glad to be free.

DELIVERANCE AT HAND

The
great Deliverer is the antitypical Cyrus. Soon He will go forth to victory, and
will establish His Kingdom under the whole heavens. Soon the Church class, the
saints, “the elect,” will be glorified, and then the time will come for the
blessing of the non-elect ─ for their restitution to human perfection and to a
world-wide Paradise, which Messiah's power and
Kingdom will introduce. “He must reign until He hath put all enemies under His
feet; the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” Sheol, hades, the
grave, will be no more; death will be destroyed by the resurrection of the dead
there-from, “Every one in his own order.”

Many
of the Lord's people who can see something of the blessings due at the Second Advent,
and who appreciate in some measure the fact that the Lord comes again to bestow
the great blessings secured by His death, fail to see this other proposition;
viz., that those in their graves have as much interest in that glorious reign
of Messiah as those who at that time will be less completely under the bondage
of corruption ─ death. But as surely as Jesus died for all, they all must have
the blessings and opportunities which he purchased with His own precious blood.
Hence we should expect blessings in the Millennial Age upon all those in the
grave as well as upon those not in it; and of this we will find abundant proof,
as we look further into the Lord’s testimony on the subject. It is because of
God’s plan for their release that those in the tomb are called “prisoners of
hope.”

The
prevailing opinion is that death ends all probation; but there is no Scripture
which so teaches. God does not purpose to save men on account of ignorance, but
“will have all men to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4) Since
the masses of mankind have died in ignorance, and since “there is no work, nor
device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave” (Eccl. 9:10), therefore God
has prepared for the awakening of the dead, in order to knowledge, faith and
salvation. Hence His plan is, that “as all in Adam die, even so shall all in
Christ be made alive.”

THE SECRET OF JOY

While the whole creation groans under its
load of sin and sorrow, the saints may sing and rejoice, even in the
midst of all the sorrows of life, even though they share the results of sin as
fully or even more fully than do others. The secret of their joy is twofold:
(1) They have experienced reconciliation to God; (2) They have submitted their
wills to His will. They obtained this new relationship by the way of faith in
the Redeemer ─ faith in His blood of Atonement. They entered by the “strait
gate” and “narrow way” of consecration to God ─ surrendering their own wills
and covenanting to do the Divine will to the best of their ability. This
submission of the will to God and the realization that all their life’s affairs
are in God’s keeping and under His supervision give rest to the heart. They
have a rest and peace in this surrendered condition which they never knew when
they sought to gratify self-will, and ignored the right of their Creator to the
homage of their hearts and the obedience of their lives.

BELIEVERS VISUALIZE STORIES

TO COME

Similarly,
these have joy and peace, and songs of thankfulness to God, because to them He
grants a knowledge of His Divine purposes, and shows them “things to come.”
These see beyond the trials and tribulations of the present time ─ they see the
glories that will follow the present time of suffering. These see that the
Church, the saintly ones of all denominations and of all nationalities, are
prospective heirs of God ─ heirs of glory, honor and immortality; and
associates with the Redeemer in His glorious Kingdom. This encourages and
stimulates them. They also see the outlines of the Divine Program for the
blessing of all the families of the earth. When they thus perceive that God is
interested in their dear ones who are not saints, and interested in the whole
human family, very few of whom are saints, it gives them cause for rejoicing.
When they perceive that God has arranged that through Christ and the glorified
Church all the families of the earth shall be blessed, it makes them “joyful in
the house of their pilgrimage” ─ while waiting for their own change from human
to Divine nature. Seeing the provision which God has made for the world of
mankind, they are contented, and are glad to have God's will done in themselves
and in all the earth.

(What Pastor Russell Wrote for the

Overland Monthly, pages 176-178, 1909)

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LETTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST

Dear Marjorie,

I
am devastated over the news of dear Emily’s death. While I had been expecting
such news for a while nevertheless it came as a shock. It came exactly 25 years
to the day after the death of my dear Mother. Yes, now they are asleep in Jesus
and we are comforted in knowing that they will have a “better resurrection.”
They both will make wonderful teachers in the next age bringing the world up to
perfection. I am still very saddened with your news as I looked to Emily as my
spiritual guide and will miss her very much. Emily did such a wonderful job
since Brother Hoefle’s death.
Love, ___ (VIRGINIA)

………………………………….

Dear Sister Marjorie and peace through our
beloved Lord,

The
information of Sister Hoefle’s demise was received with sadness. I quickly sent
the information to our brethren all over to observe a memorial service in honor
of her, those far distant brethren to observe in their distant districts. While
the nearby ones to come to the National H/Qs on January 27.

January
27, 2008 by 10:00 a.m. the normal Service meeting started which I preached.
Five classes joined with me to observe the memorial service. The memorial was
blessed with many brethren in attendance. After the lecture all went outside
the hall and marched in line around the big hall which is built in her memory
with hymn No. 47. In the church again we sang hymn No. 250 for dismissal.

Information
reached me from other classes celebrated by Brother J.E. Tom with good attendance,
and Brother Titus E. Umoh in the area where he officiated the attendance was
also good.

Dear
sister sincere greetings to you, Brother Williams, and others supporting the
work in which all the brethren’s condolence overflows together with Sister Emah
and family.

Warm Christian love, Brother Emah (NIGERIA,
SOUTH AFRICA)

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Dear Sister Williams,

One of the Brethren from Florida told me of Sister Hoefle falling
asleep in death (John 11:11-14). You all have our deepest sympathy. She was a
precious saint. I still have her letters she wrote over the years to me.
Christian love, ___ (TEXAS)